Title: Wisconsin. Office of Civil Defense: Survival Plans
Inclusive Dates: 1955-1959

Creator:

• Wisconsin. Office of Civil Defense

Call Number: Series 1772

Quantity: 2.6 c.f. (2 record center cartons and 2 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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Abstract:

Correspondence, memoranda, press releases, and reports of a project that created the Wisconsin Operational Survival Plan. The plan provided for evacuation of target areas and survival of industry and population in the event of a nuclear attack. The project worked with local governments to produce similar plans for the cities of Green Bay, Madison, Milwaukee, and Superior.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ser01772

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Alphabetical by subject.

The Office of Civil Defense was created by Chapter 443, Laws of 1951, to coordinate state-level efforts to prepare for and deal with disasters resulting from enemy attack. Chapter 377, Laws of 1955, broadened the powers of the office and required the development of local civil defense plans. Chapter 628, Laws of 1959, transferred the office to the Executive Office where it became the Wisconsin Bureau of Civil Defense. The Office of Civil Defense was directed by Ralph J. Olson, Adjutant-General of the Wisconsin National Guard.

In March 1957 the state entered into a contract with the federal Office of Civil Defense Mobilization to produce a Wisconsin Operational Survival Plan. The document was to serve as a guide for evacuation and survival in the aftermath of a nuclear attack. The office also coordinated the drafting of similar plans for the cities of Green Bay, Madison, Milwaukee and Superior.

Processing Information

Processed by Lee C. Grady, August 4, 1998.

Box   1 Folder   1-5	General, 1956-1958
Box   1 Folder   6	Agriculture, 1957
Box   1 Folder   7-9	Annexes
Box   1 Folder   10-11	Chronological, 1957-1958
Box   1 Folder   12	Communications and Warning
	Contracts
Box   1 Folder   13	General
Box   1 Folder   14	CD-SP-57-47
	CD-SP-58-49
Box   1 Folder   15	General
Box   1 Folder   16	Amendment No. 1
Box   1 Folder   17	Amendment No. 2
Box   1 Folder   18	Amendment No. 3
Box   1 Folder   19	Preliminary Work, 1956
Box   1 Folder   20	Research Studies
Box   1 Folder   21	Economic Controls, 1957-19
Box   1 Folder   22	Emergency Information Services, 1959
Box   1 Folder   23	Engineering, 1958
	Federal Civil Defense Administration
Box   1 Folder   24	General, 1957
Box   1 Folder   25	Comments on the Preliminary Operational Survival Plan
Box   1 Folder   26	Fiscal, 1957-1958
Box   1 Folder   27	Ground Observer Corps Annex, 1957
Box   1 Folder   28	Health and Radiological, 1957-1958
Box   1 Folder   29	Illinois and Wisconsin, 1956
Box   1 Folder   30	Incoming Correspondence, 1958
Box   1 Folder   31	Jenkins, Bill
Box   1 Folder   32	Leases, 1957-1958
	Maps
Box   1 Folder   33	General
Box   1 Folder   34	Green Bay Target Area
Box   1 Folder   35	Madison Target Area
Box   1 Folder   36	Milwaukee Target Area
Box   1 Folder   37	Superior Target Area
Box   1 Folder   38	Revised - General
	Meetings
Box   2 Folder   1-2	General, 1957-1958
Box   2 Folder   3	1958, March
Box   2 Folder   4	1958, September
Box   2 Folder   5	1959, November and December
Box   2 Folder   6-7	Memoranda, 1957-1958
	Milwaukee, City of
Box   2 Folder   8-9	General, 1957-1958
Box   2 Folder   10	Milwaukee Metropolitan Target Area Movement Plan
Box   2 Folder   11-12	Milwaukee, County of, 1957-1958
	Minnesota-Wisconsin Survival Plan
Box   2 Folder   13-15	Correspondence, 1955-1957
Box   2 Folder   16	Meeting, Jan. 1957
Box   2 Folder   17	Progress Reports
Box   2 Folder   18-19	Miscellaneous, 1957-1958
Box   2 Folder   20	Office of Civil Defense (OCDM), 1958
Box   2 Folder   21-22	Operation Alert, 1957, 1961
Box   2 Folder   23-24	Operational Survival Plan, 1958
Box   2 Folder   25	Personnel
Box   2 Folder   26	Phase I
Box   2 Folder   27	Phase II Note: See also “Second PhaseI.”
	Planning Committee
Box   2 Folder   28	General
Box   3 Folder   1	Meetings, 1957
Box   3 Folder   2	Progress Reports, Weekly and Monthly to Office of Civil Defense
Box   3 Folder   3	Public Affairs
Box   3 Folder   4	Racine (Phase I)
Box   3 Folder   5	Reception and Care Study, March 12, 1956
	Second Phase Note: See also “Phase II.”
Box   3 Folder   6	Madison
Box   3 Folder   7	Milwaukee
Box   3 Folder   8-9	State of Wisconsin, 1957-1958
Box   3 Folder   10	Superior - Northwest Disaster Region - Survival - Second Phase
Box   3 Folder   11	Target Areas, 1958
Box   3 Folder   12	Target Cities
Box   3 Folder   13	Traffic Control
Box   4 Folder   1	Welfare
Box   4 Folder   2-3	1957
Box   4 Folder   4	1958
Box   4 Folder   5	Welfare Center Data